Whats Happening at Legend Trust

Hi Everyone,
Legend Trust has been working to place a social network for Montanan's up! We figure it is needed to give Montana residents a voice about themselves and the wonderful state they live in. We will have all things Montana: musician, video, and profile pages and blog applications that are as easy to use as myspace, or facebook up and running, in about a two months! The service will be free for Montanans, and we hope our state population will give it a green light and use it!

I think it will be amazing to see how our fellow Montanans use the site! Cowboy prose, Horsemanship, 4H blogs, Montana Artists and Painters, Bed and Breakfast Blogs, Fly Fishing blogs, Cattlemen Organization functions, Elk's Club events, Personal Pages etc. etc.. It gonna be cool!!! Yes, we will be monitoring it closely for proper use of the site, but we are still working out Liberty and Safeguards issues and will explain them entirely, when the site is finally up !!!

In other news, NJD Graphics has started to present its presence on the web! I have finally found the time to put together a nice looking and easy css style site, but it will take till the end of January to get everything off the drawing board and onto the web!

Since most of you wonder, who I am and were I came from, I can tell you I was making websites when, Prodigy was the only Internet service, in the United States and Netscape was the number one browser 20 years ago! Times have changed now. A good designer has to spend at least a few hours of reading and implementing coding ideas daily to keep up!

"html", the simple code that started the Internet revolution, is giving way to Xhtml, CSS, Java, and Flash! There is PHP script, Ruby on rails, and Ajax making sites more interactive and harder to code properly! Yes, we have a standards board, working on making sure the Internet can be seen by any browser, but even Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 will have problems picking up some sites properly, until IE8 arrives(I Like IE7, but I also use Firefox! its a great alternative browser to have in your computer)!

Yikes, no wonder I am beginning to feel like a geek! Yeah, I am gonna find some time to just wander around in the cold and snow(playing with my dogs outside more). I guess it is part of a couple of new year resolutions I have promised myself!

Well, 2007 is now the stuff of history. I got a gut feeling that there will be a rash of changes, we may or may not like in the United States, or the rest of the world! But, that's for our other blog that hasn't been named yet!

Enjoy your New Year!!!!!!!!!

Norma Of Legendtrust and NJD Graphics

Your relationship with Legend Trust

Web design: How you make it simple, yet Interesting to your Customers

Hi folks, My name is Norma Duffy and I am the webmaster of http://www.legendtrust.com/.

Yea, that sounds like a grand name, "WEBMASTER". But, in reality all I do is organize your stuff and put it on the web.

I, will be explaining alot more of about ouselves in these blogs, so I hope you enjoy

the information, plus some sillyness that is bound to occur here!!

What I try to do is make a website presentable to your needs, and flat darn gorgeous! And, my fun in getting it there,

is making your Product, Life, and Ideas pleasing to the eye and enjoyable to the public at large!

That is the simple Idea, and I believe it works! I enjoy what I do, it is interesting(except when I'm coding pages), and I like

people! So all in all, it is a great job, and adventure!

I usually will be the first person you will meet, when your looking

for media that includes website design! It is my job in helping you come up with the first ideas on how you want to Market yourself and goods!

I am pretty good, at figuring out, how to start your media campaign in the right direction! Putting together Print and media kits is my speciality! Helping you with demographics of your future clientele and treating you like a star in the process! If you need a website, I try and ask you all the right questions on how you want your web site to perform!

The Meeting!

When I get together with a client, it is my hope that you already have an established idea, for your site!

You have to convey to me what you want to see on your page(s).

1.Think of websites as a Magizine article with photos, or a storybook with pictures! Your story of your self,

and your business will always be interesting to your readers, if you just be yourself! So make sure all your

presentation material is ready and handed over to the web designer for the process to begin!

2. How many pages your website needs, depends on the contents you wish to have others examine!

Photos, discriptions of what you provide as a service, and why you pride yourself in that service are interesting!

But, pick the best speciality you do to present first and foremost!

3. Money! What are you willing to spend: I bring this up because if you need a lot of your stuff presented on the

web, it costs you more! Short and sweet, is the best course! At least to get your site up and running!

Not because it will cost you less, but because people surf the web(It's kind of akin to bar-hopping).

We must capture that person for a short time frame, and with in that time, and

prove they need your services, or they might wander off.

4. When I build your web pages I write the code sparingly. Why, because your site will come up quickly, and so will the other pages in it.

You might own a DSL connection... DSL might be everywhere, but the customer surfer, still might be using a dial-up connection, or an older computer.

We put your site up to inform and entertain the future customers your looking for quickly no matter what they use as a portal to the web!

5. Lastly, Be patient. A good site comes with interaction between your web developer, and you!

This sounds simple, but my job is to "walk in your shoes and then transfer that experience to web pages!

The next Blog about your future website, will come right after Christmas!

Happy Holidays!!!!!!!!!!

Hi folks, My name is Norma Duffy and I am the webmaster of http://www.legendtrust.com/.